Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the same time. Their sadness occurred in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“If you had forgotten, it would quickly come back to you. Aloneness was like riding a bike. At gunpoint. With the gun in your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Farmers aren't rich. They have land but no money." Actually, my father didn't even have that much land. He had once stood on the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the already gone;… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
